Various sources claim that New York Senator José Peralta died as a result of a flu vaccination.
The most important thing about the senator and the flu vaccination in brief:
- US Senator José Peralta is said to have died in 2018 as a result of a flu vaccination
- However, the autopsy revealed that he was suffering from a rare, acute form of blood cancer
- He died of sepsis, but flu vaccinations cannot cause it
José Peralta died in November 2018 at the age of 47. At first a heart attack was suspected, but two months later published the results of the autopsy: he died of acute myeloid leukemia ( AML ).
For at least two weeks before his death, Peralta had complained of pressure behind his ears and headaches but refused to seek medical attention, according to his wife, Evelyn. He actually got a flu shot four days before his death.
Various sites took this as an opportunity to play forensic pathologist just a few days after his death and publish articles like this:

The senator as a vaccination supporter
In fact, José Peralta was very committed to public health care (but to call it "militant" is bittersweet!), so he cooperated with a local hospital so that people in his district could receive free flu vaccinations (which is not the case in the USA is common).

Peralta himself also took part in this event and was vaccinated there.
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The speculation surrounding his death
Let's summarize:
Peralta had been complaining of feeling unwell for at least two weeks before his death, and then died four days after a flu shot.
linked his death to the vaccination, it was already clear that Peralta died of sepsis (a life-threatening condition that occurs when the body's response to an infection causes injury to the tissues and organs).
The cause of the sepsis was not yet known, but it was immediately concluded by those quarters that it was caused by the vaccination.
Can a flu shot cause sepsis?
This brings us to the misconception of those opposed to vaccination:
In most vaccinations, weakened viruses are used to “train” the immune system, so to speak. This can cause the body to experience mild symptoms of the real disease, but the viruses that cause it are so weak that the immune system can fight them.
Opponents of vaccination assume that Peralta got the flu from the vaccination, which led to sepsis.
However, influenza vaccination does not use weakened viruses, but rather inactive viruses!
These are viruses that are not infectious at all, but rather just look like flu viruses to the immune system, but cannot harm the body.
Although flu vaccinations also have side effects such as redness of the injection site, headache, fever, nausea and muscle pain, and in rare cases it can even lead to allergic reactions, none of the side effects, not even an allergic reaction, can trigger sepsis!
The real cause of death
As mentioned above, according to the coroner's statement, José Peralta died of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This form of blood cancer is characterized by its rapid (acute) course; the typical myeloid blasts could be detected in his body. The symptoms described by the doctor also match the disease.
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Conclusion
Opponents of vaccination wanted to generate clicks with the wild assumption that a vaccination supporter died from a vaccination, but they failed because of the basic knowledge about flu vaccinations: the inactive viruses they contain cannot cause flu at all, let alone sepsis.
Article image: Sherry Yates Young / Shutterstock.com
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